Where on a given earth-like planet might one find a fungal forest?
Where on a given earth-like planet might one find a fungal forest?
Gabriel Rodriguez
Jeremiah Fisher
A cave, I guess.
Grayson Hill
The answer is not where, but when.
smithsonianmag.com
but also this:
Adrian Cox
Would the big ones not block out the sunlight for the smaller ones, thus preventing them from growing?
Joseph Phillips
Fungi aren't plants, they don't need sunlight.
Adam Garcia
Mushrooms are nice people, so no they wouldn't do that.
Camden Russell
They are not photosynthetic, but presumably they'd need some sort of food source, ala decaying matter, foolish adventurers who walked too close.
Jayden Robinson
Mountain grotto most likely, A place where light is scarce, moisture is constant, and nutrition is abundant. Bioluminescence could attract bugs en masse and thus bats, their guana, and larger predators, all likely giving more for the mushrooms to eat off of. Maybe the water wouldn't be very deep and you could walk on the mycelium.
William Morales
what if instead of being photosynthetic they're giant radiosynthetic mushrooms that grow on a massive uranium deposit?
and yes I'm well aware our radiotrophic fungi are single celled, but it could still be a neat way to explain them
Sebastian Lee
Says you
Julian Bailey
What
Since fucking when
Why don't I know this
Ryder Rogers
Either a valley encased completely by a mountain range that has not been disturbed or exposed to much outside forces since primordial times.
Or Underground, Jules Verne style.
Lincoln Hernandez
Mushrooms have been associated with caves since forever.
Ian Hernandez
>Why don't I know this
That's a good question.
Benjamin Williams
Pretty much wherever you'd be able to grow a mushroom or other fungus. And depending on the type of fungi we're talking about, that could be almost anywhere.
Elijah Thomas
Also, have some fungi.
Jose Nelson
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Colton Myers
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Anthony Roberts
Contrive a way for some sort of nutrient source to be deposited in large quantities in an area where photosynthetic plants can't grow due to lack of sunlight. Maybe a forest where the dominant species of tree is so huge that the canopy totally blots out the sun, and the forest floor has smaller forests of mushrooms that grow from the litter that constantly sifts and rains down from above. Or a cave where a subterranean river deposits a lot of biodegradable stuff from above ground.
Isaiah Brooks
Oregon or Poland ever earth-like planet has a Poland
Jackson Murphy
Dunno anything about how it would eork but what if there is a planet where half of it is dark for x amounts of months a year and during that season the trees hibernate and the mushrooms spring up, or the mushrooms live inside the trees and come fourth during the dark months in kind of a symbiotic relationship. Feeding off the trees energy in the day months and vice versa in the dark
Josiah Martinez
Coal caves.
Fungi can feed on coal. But remember, the mushroom bit is just a temporary tool. The real fungus, the mycellium, is hidden.
Julian Morales
Did you know that mushrooms are actually the reproductive organs of a much larger underground creature?
Robert Rivera
One full of radiation.Fungus love radiation.
Xavier Diaz
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William Walker
that's one everyone should know, because that's why it's not safe to eat mouldy bread just because you've cut off the visible mould. The actually organism is invisible and has already burrowed all through the bread; the spores are just the bit you can see. And mycelium may not usually be infectious, but they do contain carcinogenic poisons.